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The brave decision to draw the world as it actually looks, warts photographed and all.
means An artistic and philosophical commitment to depicting life truthfully, without idealization or romantic flattery.
from From Latin 'realis' (relating to things), via French 'realisme', crystallizing in 1850s France when painters like Courbet ditched gods and heroes for laborers and quarry stones.
Courbet's manifestoHe painted peasants life-sized, scandalizing critics expecting kings.
Philosophy tooHolds reality exists independent of anyone perceiving it.
Sister movementsNaturalism pushed it further into clinical, unflinching detail.